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FACING EAST. 



FACING EAST 



By 
WILLIAM LOVE, M. A., S. T. B., Ph. D. 



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Cincinnati: 
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Copyrighted 1910 
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This Little Volume 
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Preface. 

Each life is a book. Infancy, childhood, youth — 
that is Part I. Part II, middle life, where theories 
are worked out and put to proof. Old age, Part III, 
where results are gathered up and presented for in- 
spection and approval. 

On the fly-leaf at the back where "finis" is usu- 
ally found there is a blank. Some people believe 
and more hope there is to be issued a new edition. 
That this resurrection-edition will be expurgated, 
corrected, free from all typographical errors, and that 
it will be printed with indelible ink— stereotyped. 

These books shall be opened and men shall be 
"judged out of those things that were written in the 
books." In any event, every author is so judged. 
As to the things contained in this little volume, the 
author has nothing to say why judgment should not 
be pronounced upon him: He will allow it to speak 
for itself. 

Redlands, California. 



I write unto you, young men, because ye are strong. 

— John. 

"And life and time rejoicing run 

From age to age their wonted sway ; 
But still he waits the rising sun, 
For still 't is only dawning day." 



Run, speak to that young man ! 

—Zechariah. 



Contents. 



I. The Rising Sun 15 

II. Plato's Man 24 

III. Things That Remain 39 

IV. On Controversy - 48 
V. Providence 63 

VI. Ideals 69 

VII. The Spirit 76 

VIII. About the Cross - 81 



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The Rising Sun. 

There is a singular fact which may be observed 
in connection with sun-worship. It is this, that of 
all the families and tribes of men who have in- 
dulged in heliolatry no individual or nation has 
ever worshiped the setting sun. Swarthy faces 
have ever turned toward the east, 'and with long- 
ing eyes have gladly greeted the rising sun as he 
.appeared above the horizon, or hilltop, in Mexico, 
Greece, Egypt, or Persia. Whether called Phoe- 
bus, Apollo, Hyperion, Alexieacus, or Hercules, 
no one has >ever turned his face westward or wor- 
shiped the setting sun, which suggests declension, 
deterioration, death. The rising sun is a god, or 
the symbol of a god, in the ascent of life and power. 
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And all love to admire, to reverence, to adore the 
rising light, the growing power, the increasing life. 

While beholding the autumn leaf, the setting 
sun, the old (man, there steals over our spirits a 
sense of melancholy; the decaying leaf, the de- 
scending sun, the dying man are all invested with 
a tearful interest because they are being overcome. 
Their presence lends a tincture of pathos to our 
minds. 

There may seem to be found exceptions to this 
in the following facts: Death has been deified, 
venerable >age reverenced, and the setting sun, ap- 
parently, adored /as a god by some tribes of men. 
But, upon reflection, it will be found that these 
really are not exceptions; that where death has 
been conceived of as an object for deification, it 
has been thought of as a god having power and 
dominion over life; and that where old age has 
been reverenced, outside of Christian lands, it has 
been for a similar reason; some of the reverence 
of the people for their departed ancestors begins 
to gather about the living as they become vener- 
able ; for the old man stands closely associated, in 
their minds, with omnipotence, omniscience, and 
everlastingness. The old man seems to be in the 
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very act of throwing off the weakness of this world 
and taking on same of the powers of the world 
to come. He is like the cripple before the beautiful 
gate awaiting the touch which shall restore him to 
himself; like the impotent man at the pool await- 
ing the descent of the angel to trouble the waters 
of life that he may step in and receive the final 
ablution. As a man approaches the earthly boun- 
dary-line we instinctively reverence him, awed by 
the fact that he is approaching the state where 
weakness, age and its infirmities shall cease; a 
state in which every phase of his being shall be 
eternally increscent. Looking at an old man thus 
on the border-land of the country where limita- 
tions and imperfections can never come, we are 
possessed by a sense of admiration and reverence. 
It is as if we saw a beggar about to doff his 
faded rags for the assumption of royal robes. Not 
only is the pauper to be wrapped about with royal 
splendors, but it is also as if an idiot or simple- 
minded person was about to blossom out in the 
wisdom of all the sages ; about to become possessed 
of the knowledge of life and death, God and man, 
time and eternity. So for this reason we become 
subdued in his presence by a feeling of the vast- 
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ness and glory of the estate into which he is soon 
to enter. We feel sentiments of respect and ad- 
miration for him who is thus appointed heir of all 
things, predestined to rise conqueror over the limi- 
tations and imperfections of time and change. Yet 
all the while it is the element of latent power in 
him, the triumph that we associate with his career, 
that challenges our admiration. We think of him 
as empowered to break out of the weakness of the 
mortal into the puissance of the immortal; out of 
the thralldoim of death into the liberty and glory 
of life. 

So, likewise, when the sun was addressed in 
prayer by the ancient Egyptians as he descended 
out of sight on the western side of the Nile, and 
by the Phoenicians when he grew pale and sick in 
winter, as if he were about to die; these prayed 
for him, rather than to him, that he might have 
a resurrection from the dead and return to bless 
them again in the morning or the spring. There 
is no real exception to the rule that men every- 
where and always honor the rising sun, the God 
of power. Even Apollonius of Tyana, who boasted 
that he had never seen a tyrant, and wondered if 
tyrants had claws, worshiped "the Lord of our 
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world and its sister worlds, whose glorious symbol 
is the orb of day." We, even we, worship and 
adore the Creator of all as the Lord God Almighty. 

For this reason there is now, has been, and 
doubtless shall continue to be, a peculiar interest 
attaching to youth. The Master wisely placed a 
young child in the midst. The life of a young 
man or woman is like the rising sun in the heavens 
with a long and glorious day before it; it comes 
forth rejoicing as a strong man to run a race, girt 
about with moral strength. It is the constantly 
ascending sun of humanity which imay shed its 
own glow and warmth as beneficently as the sun 
in the heavens, beautifying and vitalizing all it 
touches on its passage to the zenith of its power. 
And when it has been touched with the moral hero- 
ism of the cross, there is nothing known to us in 
this world or in any other about which men have 
speculated, dreamed, or sung more conspicuously 
admirable. 

As every large city is constantly renewed by 
its absorption of rustic vitality, so young life comes 
into the world to rejuvenate the frayed-out genera- 
tion with its high ideals and its trumpet-blast of 
hope. And every youth, if thoughtful, must ask 
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himself, herself, the fateful question, "What am 
I to do on this planet during the tiny span of 
life here allotted to mortals ? ' ' And that question 
may be pursued to its logical end, and compel one 
to become an Ishmaelite to all that is false, hol- 
low, profane ; or it imay be pushed aside as an im- 
pertinence. But the answer given to it will de- 
termine whether the eye is to be fixed only on 
stiff Chinese externals, in the contemplation of 
which the soul shall become slowly petrified, or 
whether the life shall rise through an ever-widen- 
ing series of concentric circles to its final glorifi- 
cation; whether the soul shall have the ever- 
gnawing consciousness of failure because it sold its 
birthright for a mess of pottage, preferring to 
grovel in the sty of Epicurus rather than, like 
Mary, to have chosen the "better part;" whether 
it shall have Lady Macbeth ? s ambition or Iphige- 
nia's touching purity. 

And, other things equal, the sooner this ques- 
tion is put and rightly answered, the better; for 
Milton shows himself no less a psychologist than 
a poet when he declares, "The child shows the 
man, las the morning shows the day." And an- 
other declares that "Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, 
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and James Whitcomb Riley have written immortal 
books with the autobiography of childhood for both 
warp and woof." There is an advantage in an 
early selection of life 's work. The great Dean Al- 
ford while but a child preached to his brothers 
and sisters in the nursery ; Mozart composed what 
where called wonderful pieces when but eight years 
old; Humphry Davy, while experimenting with 
chemicals when a lad, nearly blew his father's 
house to atoms; Giotto, the famous painter, drew 
rude sketches of sheep when a child, alone in the 
field, on pieces of flat flint; Michael Angelo im- 
proved his master's drawings for the guidance of 
his fellow apprentices; Napoleon won a miniature 
Waterloo against his intrenched and barricaded 
school-fellows; and Nelson asked his grandmother, 
when he was a child, with wonder in his voice, 
"What is fear?" The material of childhood and 
youth is so plastic, so very sensitive, that the 
scenes of the tender years sink into it and re- 
main in heart and brain, and later become the raw 
material out of which are to be manufactured the 
subtle, exquisite, or awful things of literature, art, 
life, character. 

A youthful Scotchman wooed and wed a bonnie 
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lassie ; they lived affectionately together until, both 
grown old, the bride was about to die. It came to 
him with bitter force that he could not live alone, 
and if he must marry, he asked himself, Why not 
the woman who was taking such tender care of his 
wife? As he watched her tenderness and sym- 
pathy he made up his mind he would ask her to 
stay with him, yet he would not do it within his 
wife's hearing, for he would not hurt her feelings 
for the world. But Jas she had occasional sinking 
spells, when she seemed to be unconscious, he de- 
termined the next time she had a " spell" to ask 
the young nurse if she would marry him. He did. 
Then, fearing his dying wife might have heard him, 
after all, to ease his conscience he thought he would 
test her and make sure; so, going up to the bed- 
side and looking down into her dear old face, he 
said, "Jianet, Janet, d' ye ken me?" The blessed 
old eyes slowly opened, while a smile crept over a 
face with the light of two worlds on it as she an- 
swered, with quavering voice, "Aye, Sandy, I 'm 
jist a-beginnin , t' ken ye!" This story is to point 
the moral that the world, now in its old age, is 
only just a-beginning to know the meaning and 
the message of young life. Every young life is as 
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strange and undefined and unfamiliar as the in- 
habitants of the planet Mars. Nor do we care 
very much for the proof, however clear, that that 
planet has an atmosphere, ice, snow, water, and 
vegetation, or even the lower orders of animals. 
What we want to know is whether there are human 
beings like ourselves there. All that is human has 
an interest for us ; but of all that is human, young 
life is the most human, and for that reason the 
most interesting. Though the progress has been 
very slow, still the world has been coming all the 
time to a keener appreciation of the child. Poets 
first sang of the stars; then later they clothed the 
celestials in human forms; and later still Homer 
sang of heroes, Dante of human destiny, Milton of 
moral orders of intelligence; but "Wordsworth 
capped the climax when he struck the modern note 
to sing of a little girl with her porringer, sitting 
beside a grave. 



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II. 
Plato's Man. 

It was Plato, I ithink, who defined man as a biped 
without feathers. And as the world has always 
been blessed with wits and wags, one of these, 
with Athenian alertness, plucked a cockrel stark- 
naked and sent him strutting into /the presence of 
the philosopher, with the remark, ' ' There goes your 
man, Plato.' ' 

The heathen philosophers generally believed 
man to have been a blunder on the part of the 
gods. They thought of man some as Eduard Von 
Hartmann, a great German philosopher, thinks of 
the world, that, though it is as good as it can be, 
yet it is thoroughly bad. They thought of man 
as Arthur Schopenhauer, the greatest of all the 
pessimists, thought of life, <that it was the greatest 
evil in the world. To them man was merely a 
jelly-fish, or a stomach, and belonged in the same 
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class as the barnyard fowl, the gobbler, or the 
goose. 

But the prophets and psalmists have had a 
higher estimate for man ; to them he was intrinsic- 
ally noble. The Hebrew philologists called him 
"Ahnosh," the mortal one; the Greek writers, 
"Anthropos," the upward gazer; while the Ro- 
mans named him "Vir," the embodiment of power. 
Poets, who are seers, conceived of man as coming 
into the world trailing clouds of glory after him. 
And history is the best justification of the poets; 
for a youth may go through the coming years 
shedding such moral radiance about as shall be too 
bright for anything mean or ignoble to live in un- 
til, because of his presence, religion, law, social 
life, art, science, commerce, industry shall have be- 
come pure as a crystal tarn smitten through and 
through with sunshine. 

As our race would hasten to decay and death 
in less than threescore years and ten if God did 
not propagate it through a next generation of 
youth, so He renews each generation; for each is 
God-commissioned to renew the world, and it does 
it. Youth it is that yearns, dreams, endures, strug- 
gles, clambers, and believes and prays until it has 
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attained for itself world palingenesis. Every 
young man and woman has his or her own special 
genius for making a peculiar contribution to /the 
world's happiness and progress, as Plato had 
his reminiscences and Socrates his good demons. 
Youth is never satisfied with what is; it seeks to 
better its inheritance, and it dreams dreams of the 
ideal conditions it shall have a share in promoting. 
Old men look back to the past, live on the memo- 
ries of bygone days. Youth never looks back for 
its Eden; Hope points ever forward, and Youth 
follows gladly in the glow of Life 's bright morning. 
Its watchword is, Upward, forward, toward the 
promised land of the morrow. Young hearts never 
sing their psalm of life /to the accompaniment of 
a single string, but to a thousand-throated organ. 
With its pristine enthusiasms youth ignores fail- 
ure and defeat, and garlands itself with hope and 
faith, the amaranthine flowers of its anticipatory 
Eden. 

And, Youth, didst thou but know it, thou 
hast now, to-day, the splendid privilege of placing 
thy fingermarks on the world's history, in its 
formative period, just as it is passing into crystal- 
lization and eternity! 

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PLATO'S MAN. 

Tour youth is your opportunity, and opportu- 
nity has always bean a blessed boon. It was such 
even when a Church had the power to interdict 
and compel thought to flow through her own chan- 
nels, even though the channels might sometimes be 
gouged out across the bleeding face of truth ; when 
the Church -arrogated the right to deny a city, 
State, or nation the authority to marry its young 
men and maidens; to baptize the new-born babe, 
which, according to her own teaching, would perish 
eternally if it died without her baptism; to bury 
the dead or to ladminister the sacraments to the 
dying, who, according to her theory of salvation, 
would be lost without her sacraments, until city, 
State, or nation saw fit to come to her terms. 
But what glory it is to be young, now that the 
time has gone — and, we hope, forever — when any 
Church or party can, Ottoman-like, hold the scimi- 
ter to the throat until confession of faith satisfac- 
tory to it has been made ! 

What an age to be young in is yours! Each 
one of you may look up to the largest fruit which 
hangs on the highest bough of the tree of Life 
and say to his soul, "It is thy glory to struggle 
for that; and when thou art possessed of it thou 
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sbalt verily be as a god." youth, know that 
thou ant now as free as the eagle, and, like him, 
refuse to be suffocated beneath any cloud, but 
aspire to rise on the independent wings of faith 
and reason, and with strong, clear eye look un- 
abashed into the light of the central sun! What 
a godlike exhilaration awaits for him who with 
the grappling-hooks of intellect and moral sense 
struggles to lay hold of each half -submerged truth 
and bring it up into the full light of day ! 

But be wise enough to recognize this truth : old 
things are passing away; rail things are becoming 
new. One of tjhe new things is a distinction that 
is being made now between the contents of the 
pocketbook and the contents of the head and heart, 
greatly to the advantage of the latter. To-morrow 
knowledge and character will, as never before, be 
the golden keys which by their mystic pressure un- 
lock magic springs and open a passage into a realm 
where the intrusion of such crass things as gold, 
stocks and bonds, or real estate shall be resented, 
and if offered as a passport shall be repudiated. 
The purse-proud who seek admission to this 
charmed brotherhood for so much, shall hear the 
Apostle Peter answer Simon Magus, "Thy money 
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perish with thee!" In this realm of ideals the 
standards of values and the units of measurement 
differ from those of the every-day world about us. 
In it that is valued most which has kept the poor, 
blind bard of Tios immortal among men; which 
made slaves like iEsop and Epictetus more power- 
ful than kings and transformed a prompter's call- 
boy into the myriad-minded Shakespeare, and 
made an outcast tinker over into the mouthpiece 
of three continents, when they will breathe forth 
their highest aspirations after Grod; that mystic 
something which has no quoted price in the com- 
mercial world, which compels North America, 
Australia, and the British Isles to think in the 
forms created for them by a Bedford prisoner 
for debt, when they find themselves in a rarified 
spiritual atmosphere, and which causes Frederick 
Douglass and Booker T. Washington to march like 
Brobdingnagians among Lilliputians, like giants 
among the pigmies who once called them their 
slaves. The daydawn is coming when soul, and 
only soul, shall count; when soul-power and soul- 
freedom shall be more desired than gold, yea, than 
much fine gold ; than honey also, and the fine drip- 
pings of the comb. 

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Not only is youth the best time to accumulate 
real estate of the head and heart, but also what 
is acquired then becomes our permanent possession. 
The impressions that are made on the youthful 
nature are made in fine, yielding material, and 
they will harden and crystallize as the years roll 
on. But if they be false impressions, they will 
bake beneath the process of the suns into fixed 
and settled habits, to burden and to break the soul 
all the rest of its days. The old world of long 
ago has left a record of itself on the rocks; the 
reptiles and birds in those far-off ages, walking on 
the soft sediment of lake shore and river bed, have 
left their footprints behind them in ithe mud of 
their day, which is the rocks of our day. The rec- 
ords they have thus left of themselves shall last 
as long as the earth endures. 

Thus Nature herself reads youth a parable to 
teach (the importance of taking good heed to the 
paths we walk in; for the tracks one makes in 
the soft material of the world's byways to-day 
will surely harden to-morrow into rocky firmness. 
Just as the footprints of these prehistoric creatures 
have persisted in the hard rocks of the earth 
through all the ages until now, so likewise the spir- 
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itual and moral imprints of men's lives shiall re- 
main through all the ages and cycles to come. 

When business firms and corporations adopted 
cash registers for the purpose of detecting the 
pilfering of employees and officials, they were, 
whether they knew it, copying after God, just as 
really as the ship-builders patterned their screw- 
propellers after the whale's tail, as the manufac- 
turers of telescopes and microscopes copy after the 
human eye. So when we take up a daily paper and 
read the record of the crimes, falsehoods, and 
frauds of men and women, we know that before 
that record of villainy was impressed on soft paper 
by the hard face of metal type it was all impressed 
on the hearts and brains of the men -and women 
who committed the sins and crimes. And many a 
dark deed which has never seen the light of day 
lies in manuscript form in human hearts, graven 
there as by the sharp stylus of an unrelenting fate, 
awaiting the revelation of that great day when 
every secret thing shall be brought into judgment ; 
for tho tissue of the body and particles of the brain 
record the transactions of our lives, and they shall 
be swift witnesses against us. The thoughts, feel- 
ings, passions we have indulged, these can neither 
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be bribed nor bought off. Like the Jews who 
wished Pilate to rub off the superscription from 
the cross, being ashamed to go before the world in 
history as a people who crucified their King, who- 
ever lives la wrong life and supposes he can blot 
out the record thereof will find that the thing will 
stay put. Pilate's verdict, "What I have written, 
I have written/ ' is final! 

Modern psychology puts into the hands of the 
modern prophet terrible weapons. One may do 
evil, go on and forget it; it may even lie, like a 
landscape, for a while hidden under a purple mist ; 
but a whiff of the wind of the Spirit rolls off the 
vapors, exposing the whole of it from horizon to 
horizon. 

A few years ago a ship with copper fastenings 
was cast ashore at Kennebunkport, Maine. The 
wreck was identified. It was of the ship Isadora, 
lost with all on board off Zora Cliff, November 
30th, in 1842 ! Later the timbers of Benedict Ar- 
nold 's flagship, Constitution, which had been sunk 
in 1776, rose from /the bottom of Lake Champlain 
and floated on the surface ! When passengers are 
lost in the Great Lakes, cannon are fired over 
where they went down,, and the concussion shocks 
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the bottom so it lets go its hold <on them and they 
float. Ships go down and lie for half a century 
or a century, and then some night a storm agitates 
the waters and these hulks are hurled into the sight 
of men to recall what had been forgotten. But the 
sea, with all its force and power, has but mimic 
majesty in comparison with a human conscience! 
A while ago a, man confessed he murdered Mollie 
Ness because the cries of a babe who saw him com- 
mit (the crime would not die out of his ears ! He 
had baffled the detectives, but could not baffle his 
own conscience! The body of Herzigs was found 
hanging from a tree in a secluded spot in Wallace 
County, North Dakota, with a note pinned to the 
lapel of his coat — a post-mortem confession of a 
murder he committed in Youngstown, Ohio, more 
than thirty years before! May not memory and 
conscience be the "worm that dieth not and the 
fire that is not quenched V Son, remember! 

And as youth is the best time to lay up in store 
good things for the future, seeing it vanishes all 
too soon, what is done must be done quickly. In 
this sense, also, now is the accepted time, and now 
is the day of salvation. Little wonder rthe angel 
was commanded to ' ' run ' ' and speak to this young 
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man! There is no time to lose. But, after all, 
this is a beneficent law. As heredity is terrible on 
one side, and on the mother saves us from the con- 
tingencies of ' ' sports, ' ' " freaks, ' ' and ' ' monstrosi- 
ties,' ' so this makes it possible for us to store up 
in our memories and nervous systems the best 
things for future use. It enables us to make the 
best thoughts, the noblest feelings, and the sublim- 
est truth our permanent possessions. Through this 
law of knowledge we can company with all the 
kings and queens, poets 'and philosophers, seers and 
prophets of all nations and times. No wonder the 
aged Paul wrote to Timothy, "Give attention to 
reading!" An empty purse is embarrassing, but 
an empty head is infinitely worse ; an old, thread- 
bare coat is disadvantage, but a poor, thread-bare 
mind is intolerable. This puts a premium on the 
worthy employment of spare hours. If the angels 
were not worthily employed they might make an- 
other insurrection in heaven ! That may be a good 
reason for God's having made them all (ministering 
spirits. Empty lives are the devil's workshop. 
Make room for the Son of the carpenter in your 
life! 

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PLATO'S MAN. 

We read in a very old history that Abel, being 
dead, yet speaketh — or keeps on speaking. This 
is not peculiar to Abel. Every man who has lived 
and done anything keeps on speaking. Every ship 
that sails the sea is the voice of some old inventor ; 
and every one that comes with a straight course 
to her desired haven is the voice of some one who 
discovered the mariner's compass. Poetry is the 
echo of the voice of Homer, Virgil, and Pindar; 
philosophy that of the voice of Plato, and logic 
echoes Aristotle. Every bridge and wall is the 
voice of some far-away benefactor. The power- 
loom, the -spinning-jack, and the sewing-machine 
are the voices of Crompton, Jacquard, and Howe ; 
and the cotton-gin and the cross are the voices of 
a slave and a Savior pleading for freedom! 

But Cain also keeps on talking. In his day 
fond mothers named their children iafter him, 
Cainan and Tubal Cain. He was the wicked ante- 
diluvian world's ideal. But the good outlives the 
evil. Mothers do not, in our day, name their 
children after the most bloody-handed fratricide. 
Husbands do not dance in frenzy to the music of 
their sword-song in the presence of their wives, 
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hoping to gain /their admiration by the expressed 
determination to become more bloody than Cain in 
their deeds of homicidal shame. 

" This the curse of every evil deed, 
That propagating, it brings forth seed." 

Cain's evil deed propagated itself until "the whole 
earth was filled with violence. ' ' Then came the del- 
uge. But Abel's life has touched, and in touch- 
ing all the ages has made them big with blessing. 
His example has also found imitators. His spirit 
of devotion and self-sacrifice inspired Abraham, 
Moses, and the prophets, and finally broke forth 
in a conflagration of moral heroism on Golgotha. 
Thus the voice of one man may echo iand re-echo 
across the ages as it impinges against hilltop and 
mountain-peak until the very air becomes vocal 
with its benediction. 

"Our acts still foil 
And whatwe have been makes us what we are." 

Our faith in the final supremacy of the good has 
come to us echoing from the mountain-tops of hu- 
man history. Things will have their fruit in the 
last age of the world because they had their roots 
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in the first. The conquest of Canaan eventuated 
in the Creeds of Christendom. England rules 
India in the twentieth century because the Dutch 
raised the price of black pepper in the sixteenth 
century; we live under a republican form of gov- 
ernment in the twentieth century because an arbi- 
trary old man in his dotage was king of England 
in the eighteenth. Old Hellenic heroes struggled 
and died in a thousand battles on sea and land 
to bequeath to other nations, yet to be, the germ- 
inal idea of free governments, and these new-born 
nations have been busy ever since developing, per- 
fecting, and working it out for themselves as the 
years have come and gone. 

The Greek struggles made it easier, later, to 
banish a despotic Roman emperor and to set a 
Christian ruler upon his throne. A Christian on 
the Roman throne made it easier for Charles Mar- 
tel to beat back invading Saracenic hordes; and 
he of the hammer in turn assisted another age to 
wipe out the feudal system and inspire men to lift 
up their eyes, past petty lords, to the Lord God 
Almighty. Again another age was emboldened 
thereby to challenge and explode the euphemistic 
theory of the divine right of kings ; to abolish the 
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star chamber and swim the Atlantic in the May- 
flower; then to attack and overthrow the power of 
human slavery in the lagoons and ricefields of our 
own sunny Southland, and finally to rid the Orient 
of the misrule of Spain. 

In the realm of invention and discovery it is 
the same story. Others have labored ; and we, hav- 
ing entered into their labors, have at our command 
the most subtle force of nature with which to work 
our will. Tycho Brahe first noted the erratic mo- 
tions of the planets ; later Kepler proved that these 
motions were due to their revolutions about the sun 
in elliptic orbits; and at last Newton furnished 
the explanation of all these wonders of the move- 
ments of heavenly bodies by his proclamation of 
the universal law of gravitation. So, likewise, 
Star, Jablochkoff, Brush, and Edison have made 
their several contributions to the perfection of the 
arc4amp. 



III. 
Things That Remain. 

Yet there remain tasks for the present generation 
to perform. One of them will be the readjustment 
of the existing relations between the white men 
and the black men of this Nation. And he may 
be remembered as the savior of our cherished re- 
publican institutions who shall show how this can 
be done without invasion of the rights of the one 
or abridgment of the liberties of the other. 

As one contemplates what is already struggling 
in the matrix of the future demanding the right 
to be born into being, one's finger-tips tingle at 
the thought of being young. If allowed free play, 
one's imagination staggers and reels like a drunken 
man. Lately we were in the throes of blood over 
a fuel famine ; but now chemistry has found a new 
substance, radium, which gives off heat, and, so 
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FACING EAST. 

far as can be learned, without the loss of a single 
particle of its energy by combustion. Now Ameri- 
can investigators have discovered radio-activity in 
water, and an American mechanic is teaching us 
how to burn ashes. We now possess the process of 
making liquid air, which is so cold that a piece 
of flesh will freeze so hard in it that if it is struck 
it will give off a musical tone. In the future some 
one will show us how to burn water or ashes to 
warm us and cool us with liquid air, .and then the 
monopolies of the icemen and the coal barons will 
be over forever. 

We are now plagued with municipal corruption, 
venal city councils, corrupt politicians; but some 
one in the future shall rise up to show us how to 
run public business and put the profits where they 
belong — -into the pockets of the people. "Who shall 
he be I There is a place awaiting him in the hearts 
iof the people when he comes. The police force is 
a problem with us. But some one is coming to 
compound a phosphorescent paint which, when put 
upon our homes, will make an end of luminous 
gas companies and enable us to dispense with the 
police force and fufill the prophecy of the ancient 
seer concerning a city where there shall be no need 
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THINGS THAT REMAIN. 

of the light of the gas companies or the moon by 
night among its luminescent streets and squares; 
for there will be no more night there. Who shall 
do this? There is a blank space for his name on 
the roll of honor, a vacant niche for him in the 
Hall of Fame of the future. 

But there must be no drones in the human hive, 
for only the willing and obedient shall eat the 
good of this land. It is evident from the past that 
God will open His storehouses to any man only 
after he has prepared himself to -appreciate the 
treasures contained therein. It may be noted that 
Egypt and Babylon lay hermetically sealed, with 
their treasures, through all the centuries; out of 
all their thesaurus of stone, brick-cylinders, and pa- 
pyrus not one glint of light did the crusaders of 
the eleventh century get. And the reason, as ap- 
pears now, was simply that they were not pre- 
pared to appreciate this wealth of ancient world 
wisdom and knowledge ; for when men had turned 
again to the study of the ancient classics, and had 
shaken off the intellectual trammels of the former 
narrow, traditional dogmas in politics, theology, 
and science, God sent Napoleon I into Egypt with 
his armies and his ambitions iand with — a spade to 
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dig up the "Rosetta stone!" And ever since the 
world has been astounded almost daily, and has 
experienced an almost constant thrill by the dis- 
coveries of libraries, temples, and gods. 

And how these old istatue-earvers and star- 
-gazers, whose records we now can read, should 
shame us moderns into activity ! They are rising 
from their graves, shaking the dust of centuries 
from tljpir mummy-cloth, to stimulate us self -satis- 
fied moderns and to compel us to rouse ourselves 
from our indolence, and think. And we >are doing 
It. "When the Rosetta stone was discovered there 
was not an observatory on this continent. While 
we supposed this world and all others were brought 
forth by a divine fiat, instantaneously, and that 
they were all to remain unchanged, unchanging, 
and unchangeable, we slept among them without a 
/question about them land without any very great 
interest in the heavens above or the earth beneath 
or waters under the earth; but since we have been 
awakened to the fact that all celestial bodies grow, 
bloom, shed their petals, and decay, like the roses 
in the garden, while others take their places, there 
is a new incentive furnished us to study and ob- 
serve, since any one of us may chance some morn- 
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THINGS THAT REMAIN. 

ing to see God speaking a new world into being 
or wiping an old one ont. 

And it is in the universe of truth even as in 
that of matter; there may be no new truth, as 
there is no new matter; but old truth, like old 
matter, is constantly changing its form, and hence 
new formations, new combinations, new systems 
may be discovered by each new generation of men 
under new conditions ; for as the old elements, soil, 
air, water, at the mysterious call of life give us 
new flowers and fruits, so will old truth bloom and 
bring forth under the touch of vital intellect. As 
we get new sunsets and rainbows when nebulous 
vapors are smitten through with sunshine, so the 
action of a living soul upon truth .lights it up, 
illumines and glorifies it. Considering, then, what 
has been bequeathed to us and what lies before us 
challenging to high ambition and noble endeavor, 
our pulse beats fast at the thought of being young ! 

Now, then, what manner of youth ought we to 
be who are the legatees of such opportunities in 
such an age as this I 

Modern science has shown that all color is vi- 
bration, and that the body of the chameleon is so 
exceedingly sensitive that it vibrates in unison 
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FACING EAST. 

with whatever it happens to be resting upon, and 
so is always the same color. Youth is sensitive also, 
and hence is peculiarly in danger of taking on the 
moral and intellectual color of its surroundings, 
and thereby becoming a mere reflection or echo. 

But what this age demands of every youth is 
the development of such moral, spiritual, intellec- 
tual fiber and brawn as shall insure a strong, inde- 
pendent personality; for "the poor ye have al- 
ways with you," who will worship the double- 
headed deity of the Manichseans! The poor who 
will weakly wag as the bush wags; who will hunt 
with the hounds and run with the hare; who will 
blow hot and cold at the same time from the same 
mouth; the poor who carry water on both shoul- 
ders ; the poor weaklings who will always ask first 
concerning any proposition, "Is it popular? prof- 
itable? safe?" — poor people who, like Whittier's 
double-headed snake, are ever ready to run in 
either direction with equal facility. These will go 
through temple and market-place, as of old, obse- 
quiously asking, "Have any of the rulers believed 
on Him?" Yes, there will always be enough of 
these poor people with a moral squint in their eyes 
caused by their attempting constantly to look both 
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THINGS THAT REMAIN. 

ways. But it may be the glory of this generation 
to allow all such to grow old and die out of the 
earth without adding a single recruit to their 
ranks ; asking first, last, and all the time this only, 
concerning any position or issue, "Is it right?" 
Courage for that question will induce such soul- 
fiber as shall vibrate only in unison with whatever 
is noble, true, good, and so take on the moral hue 
of righteousness in thought, feeling, action. This 
will assist to an appreciation of the feeling of the 
old Greek sage who indignantly cried out, "May 
his memory perish who first dared to make a dis- 
tinction between what is just and what is profit- 
able." The ostrich logic of holding one's head in 
the sands of intellectual indifference or moral ir- 
resolution is a singular delusion ; for if one refuses 
to see things, he can not compel them not to see 
him; for issues that are up for discussion among 
his fellows will see him; Fate, Destiny, God will 
see him! 

When taking one's place in the world's work- 
shop one must keep his heart and mind open to 
all the light and truth that come, but at the same 
time exercise judgment and discrimination con- 
cerning the things and theories that present them- 
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FACING EAST. 

selves for his acceptance. The young crow in 
its callow period will swallow anything offered, 
whether strips of leather, shreds of cloth, or peb- 
bles. The English sparrow goes to the other ex- 
treme, and refuses to accept anything offered, no 
matter how dainty the morsel. When theories are 
offered for our acceptance in science, philosophy, 
religion, law, literature, art, politics, or social life, 
we need be neither as gullible as the crow, nor as 
skeptical as the sparrow, but, heeding the apostle's 
injunction, " Prove all things and hold fast that 
which is good." 

When La Fontaine saw a broken block of mar- 
ble lying in an out-of-the-way place he stood gaz- 
ing at it and soliloquized, "What will come out 
of it — a table, a wash-basin, or a god?" Our 
marble block is life. And the same old question is 
thumping away at the throat of each one of us, 
"What will come out of it?" If, like the men in 
Gideon's army who lay down to drink water, we 
gratify our lower natures, our baser appetites, then 
life will give us a table, gluttony, and the gout. 
If we devote ourselves to social amenities, the re- 
finements of taste, the superficial, the exoteric, the 
outside cup-and-platter-cleanliness, then all that 
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THINGS THAT EEMAIN. 

will come out of life for us will be a wash-bowl! 
But if we deny our lower selves, free ourselves from 
evil passions, have our faculties ennobled and dig- 
nified by rational restraint and godly control, then 
to the question, "What will come out of life?" 
the prompt reply will be, "A God!" 



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IV. 

On Controversy. 

Not to crush an opponent, but to establish a truth ; 
that is the legitimate object of argument. If, for 
the good of all concerned, one must indulge in ar- 
gumentation, let him beware of confounding his 
opponent with his opponent's heresy, treason, or 
untruth, and adopting the sledge-hammer method 
of bringing conviction to his mind. Should one 
deem it incumbent upon him to pursue an oppo- 
nent, a more excellent way than to refuse quarters 
would be for him to see to it all the time that he 
is, like the ancient Jewish authorities, keeping the 
paths that lead to the cities of refuge clear of im- 
pediments and finger-boards along the route, indi- 
cating to him where to flee. 

Giant steam-hammers there be which weigh a 
thousand tons iand make the earth shake for more 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

than three miles around at every stroke, but no 
sane man would ever think of using one of them 
for a nut-cracker. Shells that weigh five hundred 
pounds are loaded into and shot from guns of 
eighty thousand pounds. These are never used to 
shoot crows in the cornfields. If hunting geese, 
use number five j but when hunting grouse, number 
eight shot will do. It is a necessary precaution to 
adapt the ammunition to the game, whether it be 
bipeds with or bipeds without feathers. It is not 
wise in one to 

"Make tragedies from trifles, 
Or shoot butterflies with rifles." 

We can only smile good-naturedly 'at the stu- 
pidity or the cupidity, and sometimes we have been 
in doubt as to which of the two it was, of the Mus- 
sulman who shows us, outside the curtain in the 
Mosque of Omar, the gold nails that were driven 
into a solid slab of jasper by Mohammed, the 
Prophet of Allah. It is very true we read in ca- 
nonical Scripture that the nails in the Holy of 
Holies, in Solomon 's Temple, were of pure gold. If 
Solomon could drive gold nails into wood, why 
iould not Mohammed drive them into stone? An 
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FACING EAST. 

ingenious divine, scenting the liability to skepti- 
cism concerning the driving of gold nails even by 
Solomon, has suggested that they were "screw- 
nails, ' ' these having been used, though not of gold, 
by ourselves in the latter half of the nineteenth 
century, as any dictionary printed prior to that 
will show. These, even though they were of gold, 
could be screwed into their places easily enough. 
Moral : Many golden ideas which can not be driven 
into people's heads with a trip-shammer could be 
quietly screwed into them. In fixing a clock, an oil- 
feather is safer for most people than a file. 

But if the ' 'screw-nail ' ' and oil-feather process 
does not enable one to get along with his interloc- 
utor in peace, one can part company from him as 
Saul did from Barnabas, recommending him to the 
grace of God. That was certainly a more praise- 
worthy way of disposing of him than to have 
burned him for a heretic, as Calvin did Servetus. 
This burning argument has lost some of its force 
since psychology has pointed out that controversy 
produces an atmosphere which is unfavorable to 
conviction in the mind; the first prerequisite for 
mental conviction is a willingness to know the 
truth. But controversy awakens antipathy ; throws 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

a cloud of prejudice and passion over the reason. 
Any one who is first angered is not easily per- 
suaded ; whom the gods will destroy they first make 
mad. In disputing with one, you put him on the 
defensive and give him a new motive for not hear- 
ing you. First he had only to defend his position ; 
but now he has both his position and his pride to 
support. In seeking for emphasis, he is exposed 
to the sin of exaggeration; and he who is called 
upon to defend a theory will generally, like David 
Hume, have one convert to it — himself; for heat 
fixes color in thought as well as in chinaware ; the 
heat of controversy is an excellent mental mordant. 
It is wiser, generally, to pour a libation on the altar 
of Sige, the goddess of silence. 

Anyway it is wise never to pass an argument 
as the enslaved Greeks used to pass their taxes to 
the Turkish magistrate, on the point of a naked 
sword. Better, like the noble knight who found 
himself compelled to keep the lists against Branda- 
mante, blunt the point and edge of Balisarda. 
Where opinions only are involved it is wiser to 
give and take, as a tuner does with the strings of 
a musical instrument. It is perhaps the finest of 
the fine arts to be able to dissent gracefully. To 
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FACING EAST. 

have the place where the debate is conducted so 
chilly that sensitive people are threatened with 
nervous collapse from the severely conventional 
tension, is about as bad as to have it like the Pri- 
mus in Plato's time, "the haunt of sailors where 
good manners are unknown." 

Inexperienced travelers generally put more 
things into their traveling-cases when they set out 
on a journey than they use. Instead of supposing 
that a man has denied the faith when we see him 
casting away certain .small articles from his intel- 
lectual gripsack, let us commend him for having 
had such provident forethought when he started, 
thus having provided for all possible contingencies 
on the way. The mother must not be condemned 
for casting away the baby-clothes that are frayed 
and putting a change on the child, as if she had 
thrown out the baby with the suds of its bath. If 
we are tolerant of what we are not sure of, we will 
not be very dogmatic. It is not every statement 
of truth even that lends itself to the measuring-line 
or the apothecary's balances; the profounder the 
truth the more akin it is to poetry, and the more 
distantly related to mathematics. Even words are 
not so much of the nature of ivory cubes as of bits 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

of gum-elastic. A slight squeeze iu the annuncia- 
tion reports itself in the inflection, and the inflec- 
tion modifies the meaning. The little lip-pressure 
applied puts them out of shape in the ear of the 
hearer. Moreover, there is, and in the nature of 
the ease must be, a neutral ground between any 
two intellects, which neither ought to attempt to 
usurp, an invasion of which is generally considered 
a valid justification for the breaking off of intel- 
lectual diplomatic relations, if not a cause for a 
direct proclamation of war. 

Nature always seeks to soften and tone down 
the harsh and angular in color and form, as though 
she were conscious that if we only saw the naked 
truth our moral sense might be shocked, as our 
assthetic natures would be if the rich yellow-brown, 
of the old Attic temples, which now contrasts and 
blends so beautifully with the soft blue of the 
skies of Southern Europe, were suddenly restored 
to its pristine whiteness. So the pitying heart 
seeks to shed a softer light over the glaring ir- 
regularities of truth by the adoption of merciful 
euphemisms. And may his memory forever remain 
green who first invented them, thereby enabling us 
to draw a thin verbal gauze over some matters, 
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FACING EAST. 

making a veritable Beau Brommel out of what 
were otherwise plain prosaic, individual facts. 

Then, too, a kind heart hates the work of the 
inquisitor; it justifies the musician by the music, 
judges the painter by his pictures, and the college 
professor by the men and women he turns out. 
When the man has worked himself out, fully, 
freely, finally it judges him by the results. "By 
their fruits ye shall know them." Eight here is 
where the otherwise competent old Greeks made 
their most dismal failure. They lost many a splen- 
did opportunity for gaining renown in battle be- 
cause, fearing lest any one of their generals should 
acquire a commanding influence over the rest or 
gain unusual prestige among the soldiers by close 
acquaintance through long service, they adopted 
the rule of rotation in office. This sometimes re- 
tired a general, who had planned all the details of 
the campaign, on the very eve of battle and put 
a comparative stranger to his plans in his place. 
Their theory seems to have been that if any one 
of them should become inordinately conspicuous, 
all the rest of them would on that account be af- 
flicted with an intolerable sense of their own in- 
feriority. So, likewise, during the twelfth century 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

in England the strife over the crown had broken 
out in a medley of feuds between Baron and Baron 
because each one refused to brook the thought of 
his fellow becoming his equal or superior. It may 
have been out of deference to this ancient senti- 
ment that France, Turkey, and England benevo- 
lently furnished the modern Greek nation with a 
king of foreign blood. 

Most of our knowledge is relative anyway. An 
English gentleman visited the Lord Provost of 
Glasgow. The provost accompanied him to Aber- 
deen, where the Lord Provost of Aberdeen made 
him a great dinner, at which, when " grace" was 
said, the host said, ' ' Fah tee, gentlemen, fan tee ! " 
The Englishman, turning to the Glasgow provost, 
asked what was meant by "fah tee," and was an- 
swered by His Lordship in a whisper, "Haut, the 
bodie canna speak: he means, Fau too!" And be- 
sides — i 

"The Future's great veil our breath fitfully flaps 
And behind ever broods there the mighty perhaps." 

Our knowledge is not only relative, it is gen- 
erally fragmentary. It almost seems, sometimes, 
as if our positiveness was in an inverse ratio to 
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FACING EAST. 

our knowledge. Wisdom would advise us that we 
are so certain of many things we must be mistaken. 
The Master Mind of all waited thirty years ere 
He entered into controversy with the evil men 
about Him or rebuked their wrong-doing. "Mine 
hour is not yet come," He used to urge. "He 
that believeth shall (not make haste." Let us be 
patient, and perchance "Love himself will bring 
the drooping flower of Knowledge changed to wis- 
dom." 

We read upon admirable authority that offenses 
must come. And why? For this, among other 
reasons : that no two persons can ever see the same 
truth from the same angle at the same moment, 
any more than they can see the sun in the heavens 
at the same instant from the same point in space ; 
and hence even good men will have misunderstand- 
ings and heart-burnings. Professor Carruth has 
well expressed what many others have felt : 

A fire mist and a planet, 

A crystal and a cell; 
A jellyfish and a saurian 

And caves where the cavemen dwell j 
Then a sense of law and beauty, 

And a face turned from the clod- 
Some call it evolution 

And others call it God. 
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ON CONTKOVERSY. 

A haze on the fair horizon, 

The infinite tender sky; 
The ripe rich tints in the cornfields, 

And the wild geese sailing high ; 
And all over upland and lowland 

The charm of the goldenrod, — 
Some of us call it autumn 

And others call it God. 

Like the tide on the crescent sea beach 

"When the moon is new and thin, 
Into our hearts high yearnings 

Come welling and surging in — 
Come from the mystic ocean 

Whose rim no foot has trod — 
Some of us call it longing 

And others call it God. 

A picket frozen on duty, 

A mother starved for her brood, 
Socrates drinking the hemlock, 

And Jesus on the rood: 
The millions who, humble and nameless, 

The straight, hard pathway trod — 
Some call it consecration 

And others call it God. 

Disagreements are not in themselves, as such, nec- 
essarily evils. But only those who have been be- 
hind the curtains in life's green-room can tell how 
many men and women have suffered essential mar- 
tyrdom because of misunderstandings and harsh 
criticisms. There has been a long list of indict- 
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FACING EAST. 

ments brought in by the grand jury impaneled by 
history. No wonder Jesus looked up to heaven 
and sighed while restoring to a man the use of his 
tongue ! 

Quarrels may even be necessary as an element 
in the development of the race. Paul and Barna- 
bas quarreled and separated ; Angelo and Raphael 
wrangled and disputed; 'the Apostle John fled the 
bath-house at Ephesus when Cerinthus entered it; 
Charles Wesley and Toplady fell out ; but through 
it all God works His will, making the wrath of 
man to praise Him, and restraining the remainder 
thereof. 

Out of the dispute between Paul and Barnabas 
came a double evangel — two rays of gospel light for 
the Mediterranean coasts instead of one ; out of the 
rivalry and bickering of Angelo and Raphael came 
the most noble period of art; the jealousy of An- 
gelo may have spurred on the ambition of Leonardo 
da Vinci to paint his Mona Lisa in such colors as 
had not been executed "so long as there had been 
artists in Italy." It was the bitter wrangling of 
the old Church officers with the new faith in Jerusa- 
lem that spread that faith, and the fall of Constan- 
tinople—the result of disputes between Christian 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

and Turk — spread Greek learning through Europe, 
sowing the seeds that bore the harvest of thought 
known as the Reformation. Out of John 's opposi- 
tion to Cerinthus came the prof oundest thoughts we 
possess concerning Jesus Christ. Out of the dis- 
putes of Wesley and Toplady came two of the most 
precious hymns the world owns, as out of those of 
iEschines and Demosthenes came the immortal cre- 
ations "Peri Steph-anon," "De Corona' ' or "On 
the Crown." 

Looking backward we can discern the footprints 
of God across the records of human passions. 
Truth, like an electric spark, zigzags to its goal. 
But though controversy has left us very valuable 
by-products, the direct beneficial results accom- 
plished by polemical defenses of the faith seem 
rather inconspicuous. Has polemic eradicated 
heresy? Has it kept it from spreading? Heresy, 
like a blaze, has its sparks scattered by being 
stamped upon instead of extinguished. Is argu- 
mentation the cure for spiritual distempers ? If it 
be true that a lukewarm Church breeds heresies as 
decaying wood does fungus, the proper antidote 
would seem to be an increase of spiritual vigor ; and 
this comes not by disputing with men, but by plead- 
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FACING EAST. 

ing with God ! The tetanus microbe can not live in 
the sunlight ; others can not endure heat ; hence the 
way to kill them is to flood them with the light of 
heaven until the temperature is too high for them. 
Ice broken into fragments by blows is ice still, and 
will congeal again; but ice melted by the warmth 
of the sun flows down the hillsides to make the 
meadows fruitful. Butler's Analogy only changed 
the form of English unbelief; but Wesley's ser- 
mons dissolved it, and turned its latent heat into 
saving power. 

And it is just as well, perhaps, to remember that 
the most eloquent preaching has been done by sup- 
posed heretics after they have been mobbed to 
death! That the most powerful discourses have 
not come generally from the carved pulpits of 
highly ornamented metropolitan churches, but from 
dungeons, stakes, martyrs' fires, and crosses! Be- 
sides, until -one knows infallibly that he is himself 
infallible, wisdom would dictate that he at least 
admit the possibility of the truth being on his ad- 
versary 's side. Moreover, the Church which per- 
mits the application of human reason to matters of 
revelation ought not to attempt to predetermine 
conclusions or to punish the dissenter. The inflic- 
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ON CONTROVERSY. 

tion of penalties is logical enough on the part of a 
Church which lays claim to infallibility, but odious 
in one which has herself revolted from the most ven- 
erable authority, in the name of freedom of con- 
science, which she would deny to others. 

The most damnable heresy is for a man to claim 
he has gained possession of all truth ; to assume that 
God can not reveal any more to the world than he 
has received. It is but a venial sin to assume that 
things not in our confession of faith are true; but 
a mortal sin to assume that any confession of faith 
contains all truth. 

It is not contended that there may not be justi- 
fiable controversy as there is justifiable homicide. 
But for him whose prime object is to reconcile his 
opponent to his truth as he sees it, or to turn him 
away from error, it is indeed of little value. Great 
blows do, of course, produce luminosity, but they 
also produce heat, and while the luminosity is an 
external phenomenon, the heat is generated mostly 
within the smitten body. When a cannon ball 
strikes armor plate its produces, simultaneously, a 
flash of light and a rise in temperature. Likewise 
argumentation is liable to be more illuminating to 
him who makes use of it, than to him upon whom 
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it is used : the former sees the light ; the latter feels 
the heat. 

The only legitimate reason for contention and 
disputation is that thereby ' i a reasonable being may 
be made more reasonable ; an intelligent being more 
intelligent. ' ' It is that we may make " reason and 
the will of God prevail." For any lower object 

" Is it worth while that we battle to humble 
Some poor fellow mortal down into the dust? 
God pity us ! Time carries us all, like leaves in a gust, 
Humbled, indeed, down into the dust!" 



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Providence. 

In every attempt to align our lives with the forces 
of the world it will be well for us to remember that 
there is a Divine Providence always interested in 
the cause of truth &nd justice. That thought will 
help to cool the f everishness of our lives, and keep 
us calm in the midst of agitation and confusion. 
For surely it must be admitted by all that he has 
read history to little purpose who has never discov- 
ered the finger-marks of God on its pages. 

What other explanation of the facts of history, 
than providence, is possible? Egypt &nd Syria — 
Syria, whose sacred soil has been dyed crimson with 
the blood of the Son of God, &nd Egypt, the land 
that received Him when Herod sought "the young 
Child's life" — have remained for ages and ages 
as if guarded by some superhuman power, station- 
ary in their life and institutions; and have been 
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preserved from falling into the hands of the Euro- 
pean hordes who were possessed only of a devotional 
infatuation, and ignorantly incompetent to appreci- 
ate the treasures these lands contained. And then 
these lands were led to yield up their wealth to the 
first age that was scholarly enough to make the tes- 
timony of papyrus leaf, carved stone, or clay cylin- 
der as powerful for the defense of the truth as giant 
powder or battle-<axes. 

The Turk first took a hand in European politics, 
and attracted the attention of princes, just when 
those princes had completed a coalition among 
themselves for the purpose of ridding Europe of 
Protestantism. Then what seemed the accidental 
glancing of the spear of one Montgomery, who 
ought to have been in the awkward squad, carried 
off Henry II during a sportive tournament, just 
when that king had completed .arrangements for 
the extermination of that same heresy, Protestant- 
ism. 

This great North American empire was kept 
hidden away from the over-crowded East for cen- 
turies, and finally given out, by complimentary 
tickets, to the men who, through their struggles 
with barons and kings in defense of civil liberty, 
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bad become competent to conserve free institutions 
in a new world. And then, when it was still an 
open question whether it was to become Catholic or 
Protestant, the red aboriginals conceived the invet- 
erate hatred of the French, just when the fate of 
Protestantism hung in the balance, and thus tipped 
the scales in its favor. The key to history is found 
in this one word, Providence ! 

If we suppose that things just " happen,' ' we 
must give them credit for happening at the points 
in space and at the moments in time when and 
where they can best serve the interests of virtue, 
morality, truth. Jericho's old adobe walls just 
"happened" to sag and spread and tumble at the 
precise time when Joshua commanded his trumpet- 
ers to blow on their ram's horns to show their faith 
in the presence and power of God in their defense. 
An Egyptian princess just "happened" to come 
down to the Nile banks as a child, who was later 
to redeem Israel from the power of her bondage, 
was about to drown in an ark of bulrushes and be 
devoured by the crocodiles, and thus pass out of 
history before it had entered it actively, and then 
just c ' happened ' ' to take the foolish notion into her 
royal head to have the foundling carried home to 
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her palace and tenderly eared for as her own son. 
A substitute ram just "happened" to become en- 
tangled in a thicket of bushes, by his horns, at the 
very time and place a young man is about to be 
offered up in sacrifice by his infatuated father on 
an altar and fire of fagots. A band of Ishmaelites 
just "happen" to be passing the spot at the time 
when another boy, who is yet to become prime 
minister of Egypt, and who is to save two nations 
from death, is suffering violence at the hands of his 
brethren that he may perish for having dreams 
of his own. And these freemen of the desert take 
it into their turbans to buy this boy and save him ! 
It just "happened'' that when by his personal 
charms the ruddy son of Jesse had become odious in 
the sight of, and an object of suspicion and jealousy 
to the gloom-minded Saul because the lad had been 
magnetic enough to attract all the court to himself, 
and was sent, with malice aforethought, as captain 
of a thousand men into battle under such conditions 
that death was all but inevitable, David, by his 
deeds <of valor and prowess, started the maidens of 
Jewry to singing his praises on the public squares. 
It just "happened" that when David refused to lift 
his hand against Saul, "the Lord's anointed," to 
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make himself king of Israel, the Philistines, fighting 
for their own ends, shattered the fortunes of Saul 
at Mount Gilboa, and put an end to the opposition 
to David, and placed him upon the throne ! Evi- 
dently if there be a god of chance he is far-seeing ! 

But the one thing which is almost surely be- 
lieved among us who have tried to read the history 
of the fortunes of men is that things do not "just 
happen.' ' Napoleon's dictum that God is always 
on the side of the heaviest battalions, as retrans- 
lated at Waterloo and revised on St. Helena, reads : 
God is on the side of truth, morality, and justice, 
and the battalions on the side of which God is are 
always on that account the heaviest battalions ! 

Therefore, in the struggles of life it will be well 
to remember always that there is actually a Divine 
Providence over all ; and never, even in the darkest 
hour, allow ourselves to doubt the final triumph of 
any struggle for the right, the true, the good. This 
faith will be as a baldric of power about the faint- 
ing soul when others waver in the conflict. It will 
enable us to say to every opposition, as Joseph said 
to his brethren, "As for you, ye thought evil 
against me, but God meant it for good!" This 
faith will keep the very air about one throbbing 
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with a divine volition, and bring to the heart the 
comforting conviction that it really is a co-laborer 
with God. That while 

" 'T is weary watching wave on wave, 
Yet still the tide heaves onward : 
We build like coral, grave on grave, 
But pave a pathway sunward." 

The history of the downfall of Egypt, with her 
hieroglyphic symbol of eternal life, and her bold 
attempt to defy decay by the embalming of her 
dead; of queenly Persia, who bridged the Helles- 
pont with boats for the love of glory through eon- 
quest; of passionate and poetic Greece, fairest of 
her classic sisterhood of States, who continues still 
to bewitch the world with her matchless oratory and 
her wizard art, and of proud, martial, majestic 
Rome, is written large in this one word, Providence. 



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VI. 

Ideals. 

Cling to the highest ideals. Do not let them go 
and they will bless you. But be not like Jacob and 
allow the angel to go when the day breaks. Keep 
and honor the vows in the daytime, in the sunshine, 
which you made when alone with God in the dark 
hour. Then with these ideals in your possession 
seek the moist thorough preparation for the highest 
offices. Aspire to the most influential positions, 
but never, never sacrifice an ideal. 

" 5 T is part of our most original plan, 
That the office should always seek the man." 

For it were greatly better to be found like Saul, 
hiding among the stuff, after one has been ap- 
pointed for the place and the work, and when men 
seek to crown one, than to be like the modern poli- 
tician, clamoring for a place or a work for which 
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we have never been anointed, and to which we 
ought never to be appointed. If the place does not 
open to us nor the work come to us, let us have faith 
in the wisdom of God for all that and keep sweet. 
If they do come, let us accept them as coming from 
God, and hold ourselves ready and willing to step 
aside when another has been appointed in our 
place. 

Let us beware of the love of power or of posi- 
tion. The story of Saul shows that some men in old 
times would sooner go to the devil for occult sup- 
port in the struggle to retain the office, than give it 
up after they have had a taste of it, no matter how 
reluctant they may have been to accept it in the 
first place. It is the love of office that corrupts 
modern civic life. It sends men about seeking graft 
and buying votes. We must either disrupt the 
Church or satisfy some men with offices therein; 
and if we satisfy the morbid craving of these men, 
then we swamp the work of God. Old King Cormac 
McArt, Cincinnatus, George Washington, and Pich- 
egru with his laconicism, "Representatives, your 
decrees are executed, ' ' charm us by the grace with 
which they put aside the office and the insignia 
thereof when their work is done, and go back to 
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their farms and oxen. But Saul seeking the wizard 
that he may outwit both God and man, and remain 
in office; the politician buying votes; the Church 
member sulking because he is not elected — both 
gods and men despise all such ! 

Blessed is the man who assumes the offices and 
dignities of life as a holy trust, and who is just as 
willing, when his work is done, "to resign them to 
the hands of another as he was to accept them from 
the hands of another in the first place. And blessed 
also is he who, no matter where his lot may be, will 
tug and lift at the burdens of life until he sees 
stars, and who does it sweetly ; for a certainty such 
an one will see beyond the stars. 

Young man, you are facing a new epoch in the 
history of the world. Some of the former things 
have already passed away. The world has already 
passed through two well-defined stages in its path of 
human progress, and is now facing a third. The 
first was the age of brawn. Then whoever was the 
most fleet of foot or strong of arm was most likely 
to capture the prey in the chase, or carry off the 
prize in combat. This was the age of Lamech, the 
striker, and of Jared, the swift. Such an one was 
likely to be obeyed, even if not respected; he was 
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chosen captain of the company, or king of the na- 
tion, because his power of persuasion lay in his club 
or knuckles. This was the age of the giants, of the 
Goliaths, the Herculeses, the Atlases, and the 
Ajaxes. But that era has passed away, being shorn 
of its power by the attributes of mind. Compared 
to the locomotive engine the giant is a babe in 
strength, and Mercury and Jared have been beaten 
in the race by the telegraphic dispatch borne on the 
wings of an electric spark. The race is not any 
longer to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; the 
age of brawn has passed, and thus one step is taken 
toward the time when "the meek shall inherit the 
earth." 

The second stage was that of brain. Activity 
was manifest almost everywhere to gain an educa- 
tion; to get the mind trained so it could grapple 
with the questions of the times ; so it could wring 
the secrets from nature; so it could compass the 
results of intellectual activity in the triumphs of 
invention, discovery, and commerce. This led to a 
foxy kind of shrewdness ; to the taking of advantage 
of the duller witted, more ignorant, or more consci- 
entious competitors. Thus intellectualism degen- 
erated and tended to make society but a collection 
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of militant individual atoms. In that age, which 
is not so long gone by, money getters were almost 
worshiped ; they were the Napoleons of finance, the 
captains of industry. 

Lately this wealth-acquiring clan has been some- 
what crestfallen ; it has been called upon to face the 
revelations of its guilty secrets. Brain-power for 
money getting has been weighed and found want- 
ing. Men are beginning to see — in a confused way, 
it is true, as yet; but they are beginning to see, 
nevertheless — that it is not a new brain that is 
needed, but a new heart. The cloven tongues of 
Pentecost are already again flaming about men's 
ears, and they must be reckoned with hereafter. 
The shades of Ananias and Sapphira are already 
disappearing over the horizon of the morrow 's busi- 
ness world. Twenty-eight bankers in "Bankers' 
Row" in the penitentiary of a single State, indi- 
cates the wreckage that has taken place in human 
lives because men were not aware that they were 
in ia period of transition into a higher moral code 
for the business world. 

Insurance companies are rejecting applications 
for policies on the lives of men who drink ; and the 
bonding companies are refusing to go on the bonds 
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of any man who gambles. So it comes to pass that 
the most influential man in the new order of things 
will be the man of the purest heart. The future 
king among his fellows will have the noblest soul. 
Not muscle nor intellect nor wealth, but spirit will 
be the dominant note in the world's to-morrow. 

While struggling for your ideals never fear 
failure. As in stories there are always hidden doors 
through which the ghost enters, so in life there are 
cryptic passages through which success chases fail- 
ure. Daniel's ideal was honest satrapies and good 
government, but he found a lion's den. Bunyan's 
was passive resistance which brought him to Bed- 
ford jail, under sentence of English judges; Mil- 
ton's patriotism, which glazed his eyeballs, poring 
over State papers. Young woke up in old age to a 
realization of the fact that his had eluded him; 
Phillips Brooks failed in his of a teacher in the Bos- 
ton Latin Grammar School, and Bryant lost his 
first law case. But Daniel came out in the morn- 
ing a hero; Bunyan sits in judgment on English 
law; and who ever saw as high into heaven or as 
deep into hell as Milton with his sightless eyes? 
Young's disappointment has enriched the world 
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with those sage, sublime though sad reflections 
on "Life, Death, Immortality" — his "Night 
Thoughts.' ' The world gladly accepts "Thanatop- 
sis" and "The Waterfowl" in exchange for The- 
mis, and rejoices in Boston's Chrysostom! 



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VII. 

The Spirit. 

The body is good ; the brain is good, but the spirit 
in us is the one permanent element which is to be 
regnant and dominant through infinite ages. The 
spirit is the all important fact. All things exist for 
the spirit. It will remain when all externals, such 
as fame, wealth, power, have tumbled into chaos and 
final ruin. The godly shall be held in everlasting 
remembrance, but the memory of the ungodly shall 
perish. Is this true? Let us see in one instance 
how it works out in history. Who does not know 
of the gentle George Herbert ? His songs are held 
in solution in the moral and spiritual atmosphere 
we breathe; they perpetuate his name and fame. 
Yet who knows anything of his infidel brother? 
George was a humble country parson, and his 
brother was Lord Herbert ! 
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THE SPIRIT. 

" The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 
Await alike the inevitable hour ; — 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave." 

But the posture of the spirit, the attitude of the 
heart, the temper of the soul, the spiritual in us, 
that shall perish never. What one knows he is in 
himself, what he knows himself to be toward his 
neighbor, his attitude toward God : this will remain 
when all else has vanished forever. 

Those who have stood in the Capitoline Museum, 
in Rome, will remember that while the place is lit- 
erally stuffed to the eaves with gods and goddesses, 
emperors and empresses, who jostle one another like 
cattle in a stampede on a Western prairie, there is 
not one of them but what is fractured, maimed, dis- 
membered, and that standing in the midst there is 
one solitary female figure in the attitude of prayer, 
which is as perfect as it was the day the sculptor 
laid aside his mallet and chisel when he had given 
it the finishing touches. That Orant has escaped 
the wreck of ages, and stands in the midst of these 
remnants of the wreckage of ancient nations, God's 
parable in marble to teach us later comers that if 
all other actions and passions are doomed to ob- 
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livion and final destruction, whatever is hallowed by- 
faith and prayer is therefore immortal. That love 
and faith and prayer are imperishable. That the 
things which are seen are temporal, but the things 
which are not seen are eternal. That 

"Behind the dim unknown, 

Standeth God within the shadows 
Keeping watch above His own." 

What is needed for the completion and perma- 
nency of human character is spiritual perception, 
spiritual life. Without this element to vitalize and 
sublimate it, life is as good as useless. Education, 
refinement, culture, position all gather their highest 
glory from the possession of this subtle, elusive, 
mystical something. Without this -a man is like a 
locomotive engine without steam. There it stands 
just fresh from the machine shop. It is a marvelous 
gem of the mechanic 's skill and art. Its every rod, 
piston, lever, cylinder gleams in the sunlight. Each 
cog and bearing lubricated until all possible fric- 
tion has been overcome. It is the pride of the shop 
and the glory of the engineer who sits in the cab, 
lever in hand, to control and guide. But it is inert, 
helpless until steam has been generated and allowed 
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THE SPIRIT. 

to pound on its piston-heads. Then it is trans- 
formed instantly into a giant impatient for action. 
Under the controlling hand of the engineer it throbs 
and pulsates along its path, like a mighty steed, 
with distended nostrils, breathing flame, and bear- 
ing burdens that would make a million strong men 
stagger! Thus it is with the life of youth. A 
young life may be burnished by the processes of 
the schools ; oiled with the suavity of good manner, 
gained by the best social converse; not a speck on 
the moral plates, or a jolt in the mental mechanism; 
and yet, without this informing something it may be 
little better than a splendid piece of inert machin- 
ery. Possessed of infinite possibilities, it may re- 
main little better than dead matter, while all that 
is needed to transform it into a mighty engine for 
the redemption of society is that the power of the 
living God may pound upon the piston-heads of its 
nature. Then would it go into the world's work $o 
rival the godlike labors of Hercules. For as the en- 
gine is constructed for and presupposes steam, so 
man is constructed for and presupposes Deity in 
him, transforming and empowering him. Without 
this, all is folly and pitiable impotence ; with this, 
man is but a little lower than God ! 
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As there stood on the eapitol of ancient Athens 
three statues of the Goddess Minerva, one of olive 
wood said to have fallen from heaven, one of bronze 
to commemorate the victory of the Greeks over the 
Persians at Marathon, and one of ivory and gold, 
placed there in the glorious days of Pericles, a per- 
fect miracle of art; so each youthful life should 
have a similar ascending scale of developments. 
The olive wood, the innocence and purity of child- 
hood, just dropped from heaven in a truer sense 
than the Greeks ever dreamt ; the bronze represent- 
ing the struggles and the victory over self, while 
the ivory and gold symbols forth the glory of fully 
developed character, standing forth like a moral 
Colossus, and breathing out the music of co-ordinate 
faculties and powers, like a veritable vocal Memnon. 



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VIII. 

About the Cross. 

It is evident that one can not change his own na- 
ture. When such a thing was supposed the ancients 
asked, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the 
leopard change his spots?" Impossible! But 
neither can one push a boat across the sea ; the diffi- 
culty in both cases is that one has no footing, no 
leverage. Yet in both cases he can adjust the 
necessary machinery. If he will set his sails right 
the winds will work for him, and urge his boat into 
the proper port ; and so, likewise, if he will adjust 
his desires, thoughts, feelings aright, the breath of 
God will blow upon him, and bring him to his de- 
sired haven. 

There is an old legend to the effect that when 

Constantine 's mother, Saint Helena, was seeking 

the true cross she found three, but could not tell 

which of the three was the true one. So she caused 

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each cross to be brought into contact with a dead 
body, and when the true one touched it the body- 
came back to life! This legend has this message 
for us : that the touch of the cross of Christ on our 
lives quickens them and makes us conscious of a 
new creation. Old things pass away, and all things 
connected with the life become new. New heart, 
new desires, new ambitions, new ways of looking at 
life. 

Then it is seen that the end and object of life is 
not happiness, but righteousness. That the blessing 
wrapped up in any life can be had only through 
genuine self-surrender to the spirit of the cross; 
through sacrifice for others. But it will be known 
then also that such self-sacrifice is not wholly for 
the sake of others ; that through it we are working 
out for ourselves the things that are worth the hav- 
ing. For we are so constituted, and God has made 
us thus, that only as we make sacrifice for others 
can we have peace in our own hearts, acquittal in 
our own consciences. We may, as many others do, 
rob our hearts of their peace and smother the voice 
of conscience, and go on in a false sense of security, 
making ourselves believe, if we can, that we have 
found out a new philosophy of life which enables us 
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to get around the crosses and sacrifices involved in a 
life of consecration to noble endeavor. We may do 
this if we will, nevertheless there is coming a day 
in which God shall judge the secrets of men's hearts 
by Jesus Christ, and in that day all /the hay, straw, 
and stubble, all the pretense and sham, all the ref- 
uges of sophistry shall be burned up. In the light 
of that day it will be clearly seen by all that we 
have been created in the image and likeness of God ; 
and that Jesus Christ was the express image of His 
person, and hence only those who have imitated the 
life and sacrifices of Jesus for the good of others 
have preserved their distinctive features of divin- 
ity. Those who have lived to themselves will be 
seen to have lost themselves. 

Nature is full of parabolic instruction on this 
point. The sun in the heavens could never realize 
itself if it kept all its warmth and light wrapped 
up in itself; only as it gives forth its own energy 
for the life of all other creatures can it fulfill its 
mission and find its own realization. The earth on 
which we live could never fulfill itself if it did not 
for the life of others yield its treasures of vineyard, 
orchard, and field, filling our hearts with food and 
gladness. The lakelet that receives 'the rains from 
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the clouds, as they come to it from mountain and 
hillside, and keeps them all to itself, having no out- 
let, will soon become a "devil's lake," a "dead 
sea," a stagnant pool which can not choose but 
generate malarial germs and death. Whereas the 
lake that gives itself out blesses with verdure and 
beauty the pastures and meadows and cornfields 
along which it flows ; and at the same time, like the 
Sea of Galilee, saves its own sweetness. 

But we are not left to grope our way in dark- 
ness through the mystic isymbolism of nature here. 
The Scriptures, which are given for the man of our 
counsel and the guide of our youth, have very clear 
and emphatic declarations concerning this matter. 
Our Lord affirms that whosoever saveth his life 
shall lose it; and whosoever loseth his life shall 
save it. And the author of the book of Hebrews 
points triumphantly to the same thought, when he 
writes, ' ' We see Jesus, who was made a little lower 
than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned 
with glory and honor!" 

So far as we know there is no exception to this 
law of sacrifice in the universe of God. We see 
that the bee which gathers sweets from the flow- 
ers is under a divine compulsion to make its own 
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contribution to the wealth of the world it lives in by 
its assisting in the cross fertilization of the plants ; 
and that Jesus, who was the express image of God, 
was not an exception. From this we must infer 
that our highest happiness can be found only in the 
enrichment of other lives by the sacrifice of our- 
own. This seems to be the economy of God in the 
world. 

Wherever we see need, it is our glory to assist 
it to the limit of our ability. Whether the needy be 
white, black, or yellow ; whether in the bogs of Ire- 
land, the woods of Germany, the steppes of Asia, or 
the sands of Africa; in the palatial residences of 
London, Vienna, Paris, or Boston ; whether he wor- 
ships Jehovah the God of Israel's prophets, or 
Jesus the Christ of the Christians, or Allah in the 
weird mutterings of the Muezzin^ or objects mon- 
strous as ever shook the brain of the maniac, in 
helping him we are following the highest ideal ever 
manifested to this world, through Him who ' ' by the 
grace of God tasted death for every man!" 

However, among us men, through whose blood 

passion surges, this task may not be popular with 

others, nor pleasant to ourselves. Nevertheless when 

the temptation to indulge selfishness comes, who- 

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ever struggles against it, and takes his journey, 
Orpheus-like, into the realms of the dead, in social 
and civic virtues, and plays to these lost ones on the 
sweet lute of self-sacrifice, will receive for his re- 
ward the sight of those dead in trespasses and in 
sins following him into the upper and better world, 
where the light that is the life of men shall lead 
them. But, like Orpheus, he must never look back 
nor stop to count the cost, for he that putteth his 
hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the 
enjoyment of this kingdom. All that persevere 
shall surely succeed in causing the stone of Sisy- 
phus to rest, Ixion's wheel to stop, and Tantalus to 
forget his thirst ! Then the vulture of ambition and 
carking fear shall henceforth refrain from tearing 
the liver out of the giant humanity; it shall flee 
away in awe, rebuked by the pathos of a cross be- 
smeared with blood, revealing to all moral intelli- 
gences the very heart of God. Then the Sirens who 
have sung their sweetest song to lure the seaman's 
bark to ruin upon the rocks shall cease to listen to 
a sweeter song than theirs. 

In this life each one may become a Pygmalion, 
and from the crude, cold stone of necessity, by sym- 
pathy and self-sacrifice, bring forth a beautiful and 
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loving Galatea. And then when the moss has filled 
up the letters on the marble which celebrates the 
heroes of war and their valorous deeds; when the 
worms shall have eaten the books which were writ- 
ten to celebrate the wisdom of the wise; when the 
stars are run down and the mainspring of the phys- 
ical universe is broken, then all who have lived un- 
selfishly and sought to follow the example of the 
world's one true Hero, shall be made partakers of 
His glory, and shall continue to receive into them- 
selves ray after ray of His infinite light through 
ages and cycles eternal! Yerily 

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; 
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, 
Unhurt amidst the war of elements, 
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds." 



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